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Science Alert

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Updated 2.1.17, 12:59 PM EST on futurism

Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel

1.23.17, 7:44 PM EST on futurism

IBM Just Posted 5 Predictions About What Life Will Be Like in 2022

Updated 1.22.17, 11:56 PM EST on futurism

Stephen Hawking: Humanity Only Has 1,000 Years Left on Earth

Updated 1.19.17, 5:33 PM EST on neoscope

Students Have Made Martin Shkreli's $750 Drug in Their Chem Lab for Just $2

Updated 1.18.17, 1:50 PM EST on neoscope

Drug-Resistant "Nightmare Bacteria" Are Quickly Spreading Through U.S. Hospitals

Updated 12.17.16, 11:30 AM EST on futurism

Extreme Weather: The Polar Vortex is Officially Back

11.30.16, 10:17 AM EST on futurism

Get Involved in the World's Biggest Quantum Physics Experiment Happening Right Now

Updated 11.29.16, 8:08 AM EST on futurism

This Weird Meteorite Could Be Our First Ever from the Outer Solar System

Updated 11.29.16, 6:19 AM EST on futurism

Australia Will Now Prosecute Nurses Spreading Anti-Vaccination Messages

Updated 11.29.16, 5:55 AM EST on futurism

10-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Is Heading to NASA After Inventing a Bandage Dispenser

Updated 11.29.16, 5:54 AM EST on futurism

Cooling Electrons Close to Absolute Zero Gives Us New Perspective on Quantum Mechanics

11.7.16, 8:37 AM EST on futurism

A New Type of Atomic Bond Has Been Discovered